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Do We Need an ORM?

by wheresvic4 on 1/15/22, 7:13 PM with 0 comments

  • by phendrenad2 on 1/15/22, 7:50 PM

    ORMs are deceptively difficult. You need a slight understanding of the underlying joins. Also, the syntax keeps changing (at least between Rails versions). But I think that if you teach engineers some tactics to use them, they are overall better than trying to cobble together SQL strings (or at best using some SQL-hiding DSL like Arel).